Professor & Chair, Preventive Medicine
University of Navarra
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Spain
Prof Miguel A. Martínez-González is the Principal Investigator of the SUN project (prospective dynamic cohort study investigating Mediterranean diet and chronic disease with around 23,000 participants and mean follow-up >10 years) and Coordinator of the PREDIMED Research Network (www.predimed.es). PREDIMED conducted the first randomized primary cardiovascular prevention trial with 7447 participants through a Mediterranean dietary intervention.
He is also the PI of the European Research Council Advanced Research Grant to fund the PREDIMEDPLUS trial, a new on-going trial with 6,874 participants (http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/188509_en.html) assessing the cardiovascular effect of an energy restricted Mediterranean diet with physical activity and weight loss.
Both the PREDIMED-1 (11 recruitment centres) and the PREDIMEDPLUS multicentre trial (23 centres) commenced in Prof. Martínez-González’s centre (vanguard centre), which informed the design of the other centres.